After the Death of Anna Gonzales
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ISBN: 080507127X / Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), November 2002
Poems written in the voices of forty-seven people, including students, teachers, and other school staff, record the aftermath of a high school student's suicide and the preoccupations of teen life.
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A powerful look at the effects of one girl's suicide on her high school"I can feelThe whispering of the hallway wallsGrowing louder as the groups gather.Each clique adding to its morning input."Did you hear?""Who told you?""Do you think it's really true?"New at this school, I stand alone.Watching . . ."Brutally honest and authentic in tone, this collection of voices centers on the suicide of high school freshman Anna Gonzales. Each piece, read alone, portrays a classmate's or teacher's personal reaction to the loss, taken hard by some, by others barely noticed. Read together, the poems create a richly textured and moving testimony to the rippling effects of one girl's devastating choice. Terri Fields has written a thought-provoking, important work that resonates with both pain and hope. This is a book that will stay with readers long after they put it down.
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